Synonyms of tundra

tundra

noun

ˈtən-drə 

as in prairie

a broad area of level or rolling treeless country

a report on the arctic tundra of Alaska and the polar bears that inhabit that vast, frozen plain

Synonyms & Similar Words

• prairie
• steppe
• plain
• grassland
• savanna
• pampa
• meadow
• veld
• moor
• heath
• campo
• lea
• champaign
• llano
• field
• down(s)
• lowland
• plateau
• bottomland
• floodplain
• upland
• flat
• table
• tableland
• bottom

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tundra

Northern permafrost, including in the Alaskan tundra, locks roughly 1 trillion metric tons of carbon in its top three meters of soil — about 10 times the amount of carbon in the entire Amazon rainforest, above and below the surface. — Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026

The faces of Al Pacino and John Cazale are unmistakable — Pacino’s eyelashes, Cazale’s tundra of a forehead, their little-boyishness in close-up, the anxiety and melancholy in their eyes. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2026

Durabook has unveiled the Z14I-HG, a fully rugged mobile workstation packing 682 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of AI power inside a magnesium-alloy shell built to survive everything from minus 29 °C (-20 °F) frozen tundra to plus 63 °C (145 °F) desert heat and direct sandstorm exposure. — Omar Kardoudi march 31, New Atlas, 31 Mar. 2026

This inner strength is evident both in Nerkagi’s ability to organise the delivery of new equipment to the tundra, and in her strongly individual religious vision. — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026